Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

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• I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • People
  • Good
  • Independent

• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Death

• I couldn't do any of my other characters, you know? But I could have done the lady. Church Lady's Malibu Beach party is an idea I have for a movie, too. Yes.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Know

• I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Love

• In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Money
  • Like
  • Car

• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Soul
  • Body
  • Diamond

• When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Love
  • Feel

• Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Beautiful
  • Star

• A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Rock

• I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Abuse
  • Authority
  • Respond

• Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Power
  • Man
  • Slavery

• I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Book
  • Smile

• Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Thanks

• Silence, you know, is the best place to get close to spirit for me.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Know
  • Best
  • Spirit

• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World

• Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Science

• After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.

  

  Buffalo Bill
  • River

• The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.

  

  Elie Metchnikoff
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Excellence

• Some of the best rock riffs ever written were by Jimmy Page, and I can't really name the songs, but some of the stuff he did on his first and second records is beyond brilliant.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Rock
  • Brilliant
  • Jimmy Page

• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

  

  David Mitchell
  • People
  • Good
  • Age

• The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

  

  William Shenstone
  • People
  • Mean
  • Honest

• With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.

  

  Kavita Ramdas
  • Men
  • Women
  • Powerful

• Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

  

  Ernest Renan
  • People
  • Religion
  • Errors